/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6674586]

>My position in regard to Dostoevsky is a curious and difficult one. In all my courses I approach literature from the only point of view that literature interests me-namely the point of view of enduring art and individual genius. From this point of view Dostoevsky is not a great writer, but a rather mediocre one-with flashes of excellent humor, but, alas, with wastelands of literary platitudes in between

Why is John Green so based?.

[Anonymous No.6674591]

and yet so annoying

[Anonymous No.6674598]

John Meme

[Anonymous No.6674607]

that sentiment sums up why the person who wrote it never wrote anything meaningful, just a bunch of empty purple bullshit. dostoevsky will endure for as long as people read books

[Anonymous No.6674609]

>John Green
>based

More like shit

[Anonymous No.6674610]

John Green is a born-again Nabokov, he even inherited all of his quotes

[Anonymous No.6674615]

This meme is getting old, guys. Use it in moderation.

[Anonymous No.6674622]

>>6674607
He's right though, even at 14 when I first read Crime and Punishment I recognized Dostoevsky is painfully mediocre.

[Anonymous No.6674628]

Dostoevsky actually had something revolutionary to say, but perhaps not the best means or prose to convey it.

Nabokov had the best prose to convey absolutely nothing of importance.

Nabokov a shit.

[Anonymous No.6674647]

>>6674622
You probably just thought it was boring

[Anonymous No.6674661]

>>6674622
lmfao :)

[Anonymous No.6674664]

>>6674628

>Dostoevsky actually had something revolutionary to say

What?

[Anonymous No.6674678]

>>6674622
Who is right?

[Anonymous No.6675364]

>>6674586
I don't know, he kind of sounds like a pretentious blowhard who didn't write anything really great but only seems great when compared to the other writers of his time and country.

[Anonymous No.6675377]

>>6675364
I seriously don't know if you're talking about Dostoy or Green

[Anonymous No.6675403]

Can we stop doing this? Besides we all know John Green is definitely one of those people who would jerk off about how essential reading Dostoyevsky is to exploring the human condition.

[Anonymous No.6675433]

John Meme plz go

[Anonymous No.6675543]

>>6674647
No, just crude.

>>6674661
>>>/r/books

>>6674678
Read the OP.

[Anonymous No.6675672]

[Anonymous No.6675681]

>>6675672
Haha hey, that edited face of Green in the middle is one I made on my old iPhone a few months ago. Someone used it, neat.

[Anonymous No.6675852]

It's funny but I've never met a seriously educated person who disliked Dostoyevsky (they exist of course, Nabokov and Chekhov are too examples) and the only people who I see criticizing him a lot are insecure dweebs who don't know anything about good writing and want to feel like they are "above" other people by disliking a very popular writer.

[Anonymous No.6675860]

>>6675377
He's talking about Nabokov :^)

[Anonymous No.6675880]

Anybody seriously trashing Dosty on the grounds his prose is a bit meh has really missed the point.

[Anonymous No.6675897]

>>6675852
>but I've never met a seriously educated person who disliked Dostoyevsky

Educated Russians.

[Anonymous No.6676865]

>>6674586
Of course Nabokov is gonna trash the fuck out of Dostoevsky, even Tolstoy. He wants to snatch up that GOAT Russian novelist title. Actually writing something good other than Lolita probably would have been a better strategy though.

[Anonymous No.6676972]

>>6674622
>when I was a young adult I had the same opinion as a young adult writer
Interesting

[Anonymous No.6677014]

>>6675897
>Educated Russians.
Oh those pretty girls with a loud mouth and half a dozen of dem quality Russian diplomas you mean. Yeah I met a couple of those too, they hate the guy with a passion.

[Anonymous No.6677039]

>>6674586
>my position in regards to dosequis is a curious and difficult one.
>being that interested in your own opinon

[EdCMa No.6677047]

John Green! Really! "Individual genius"? He needs to read more, write better and publish nothing.